Associate Professor Strategic Studies Programme of the School of Government Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

James Veitch is Associate Professor in the Strategic Studies Programme of the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, and New Zealand Co-Chair of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific. He previously served as Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he had taught courses in Christianty since 1978 and served as Chairperson for seven years. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he also served as parish minister for more than twenty years. During the mid-1980s, he took time off from teaching to help establish the Council for Mission and Ecumenical Cooperation of the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches of New Zealand.

Veitch is the author of several books, including a modern translation of the New Testament arranged in chronological order, and the editor of International Terrorism: New Zealand Perspectives (2005). Prior to his appointment to the staff of Victoria University, he taught in Singapore, where he was also Dean of Students and Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, and in Eastern Indonesia at Ujung Pandang on the island of Sulawesi, where he was Academic Dean for a time.

Read an abstract from James Veitch’s article “Defending Nicea,” which appeared in The Fourth R in 1998.

Books

Can Humanity Survive? The World's Religions and the Environment, 1996

Jesus of Galilee: Myth or Reality, a translation with introductions to the Five Gospels of the New Testament, 1994

The New Testament in Modern translation Arranged Chronologically, 4 volumes, 1993–1995

Academic Credentials

B.A., University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

B.D., University of Otago, Dunedin

M.Th., University of Otago, Dunedin

Ph.D., University of Birmingham, UK

Th.D., Australian College of Theology

Special Study

Associate, Westminster College Cambridge (UK) 1990–1991

Academic Appointments

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1978–

Director, The Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Singapore, 1977–1978